| Event |
Date |
Location |
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| 49th AAFF - Festival Pass |
Mar 22, 2011 - Mar 27, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| A Festival Pass includes access to the Opening Night Reception & Screening as well as 30 ticketed programs presented throughout the week. |
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| Opening Night Fundraiser Dinner & Screening |
Mar 22, 2011 - Mar 22, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Dinner will be provided by "eat catering" with bottomless spirits and wine. Includes reserved seating for Opening Night Screening. |
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| Opening Night Reception & Screening |
Mar 22, 2011 - Mar 22, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| The Festival opens with a grand reception, open bar and appetizers from local favorites Seva, Silvio's, eat catering, the Cupcake Station and more. |
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| Opening Night Screening |
Mar 22, 2011 - Mar 22, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| A selection of short films, featuring innovative new works in animation, documentary, experimental and independent cinem. |
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| Juror Presentation: Vanessa Renwick |
Mar 23, 2011 - Mar 23, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Portland-based artist Renwick presents personal and experimental landscape documentaries, which explore the U.S. Pacific Northwest. |
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| Student Film Showcase |
Mar 23, 2011 - Mar 23, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| A selection of new regional short film and video work created by undergraduate students. |
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| Amplitude & Scale: Music Videos |
Mar 23, 2011 - Mar 23, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Featuring animation, sampling and live action new videos for Flying Lotus, Broken Bells, Oval and Benoit Pioulard and more. |
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| Sonic Acts: Modulating the Human Sensory Apparatus |
Mar 23, 2011 - Mar 23, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Guest curated program of contemporary and archival videos, films, and multi-projector works. |
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| Love's Secret Domain |
Mar 23, 2011 - Mar 23, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Love and its truths revealed in argot and veiled signs. Short Films in Competition. |
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| Heaps, Layers, Curls |
Mar 23, 2011 - Mar 23, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Pictures of shadow, stone and effigy catalog the concrete, fleeting and the sublime. Short Films in Competition. |
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| "The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye" |
Mar 23, 2011 - Mar 23, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| "The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye" with director Marie Losier. |
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| Ben Rivers: "Slow Action" |
Mar 24, 2011 - Mar 24, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| British filmmaker Ben Rivers presents his acclaimed trilogy of 16mm 'scope films, which exist somewhere between documentary, ethnography and fiction. |
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| Out Night: LGBT Films |
Mar 24, 2011 - Mar 24, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Independent and experimental short films exploring issues related to sexual identity, gender, and queer politics. Short Films in Competition. |
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| Always Elsewhere |
Mar 24, 2011 - Mar 24, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Points on a wandering heart's compass describe a world ruled by borders, tithes and tides. Short Films in Competition. |
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| Telcosystems: Live Multimedia Performance |
Mar 24, 2011 - Mar 24, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Live performance by the Amsterdam-based trio, creating an immersive auditory and visual experience that explores the limits of human senses. |
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| 49th AAFF - Weekend Pass |
Mar 25, 2011 - Mar 27, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| A Weekend Pass includes access to the all screenings from Friday, 3/25 to Sunday, 3/27 and admission to midnight movies at the State Theatre. |
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| "Midori-Ko" |
Mar 25, 2011 - Mar 25, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| "Midori-Ko" with Keita Kurosaka in person. |
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| Vanishing (Remaining) |
Mar 25, 2011 - Mar 25, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Traces linger on a palimpsest in films suggesting an archeology of the recent past. Short Films in Competition |
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| Duke & Battersby Retrospective |
Mar 25, 2011 - Mar 25, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Artists Emily vey Duke and Cooper Battersby present a selection of their humorous, poignant video works. |
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| Animated Splendor |
Mar 25, 2011 - Mar 25, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Alternate realities of animation unwind in these kinetic, acerbic and coruscating short works. Short Films in Competition. |
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| Safe As Milk (Ages 6+) |
Mar 26, 2011 - Mar 26, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Short films in competition exploring the sensory side of cinema and engaging audience-goers of all generations. Families encouraged. |
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| "Radical Light: Found Footage Films 1978-1998" |
Mar 26, 2011 - Mar 26, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Guest curated archival program of iconic Bay Area films that sample, appropriate and create through collage. |
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| Time and the Other |
Mar 26, 2011 - Mar 26, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Migration and memory recorded in the brazen ledgers of film/video. Tender itemized moments from life in the new economy. Short Films in Competition. |
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| "Disorder" with "The Sole of the Foot" |
Mar 26, 2011 - Mar 26, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Huang Weikai's disquieting collision of documentary scenes from urban China, preceded by the world premiere of Robert Fenz's most recent film. |
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| Waves and Particles |
Mar 26, 2011 - Mar 26, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Spacious heavens enlighten shape and form within these films and digital works. Kodachrome is over but the end is new again. |
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| "You Are Here" |
Mar 26, 2011 - Mar 26, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Video artist Daniel Cockburn's feature-length work comprised of interconnected mini-narratives. |
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| "Nostalgia for the Light" |
Mar 26, 2011 - Mar 26, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Astronomy, archaeology and the devastating effects of Pinochet's regime all intersect in this stunning film focusing on Chile's Alacama desert. |
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| Hidden Inverse |
Mar 26, 2011 - Mar 26, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Unabashed subjects in absurd guises, naked poses, and deep embraces; depictions of a humanity at it's most uninhibited. |
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| Sam Green Retrospective |
Mar 26, 2011 - Mar 26, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Short documentary films presented by this Academy Award-nominated director (Weather Underground). |
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| A Vessel Redreamt |
Mar 26, 2011 - Mar 26, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Spoken and unspoken tales of mad odyseys and strange encounters from Brazil to the Badlands. Short Films in Competition. |
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| Dream Unveiled |
Mar 27, 2011 - Mar 27, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Pageants, rituals and re-creations inhabit the collective dream. Films in Competition |
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| "Psychohydrography" with "Sea Salt Flower' |
Mar 27, 2011 - Mar 27, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| "Psychohydrography" with "Sea Salt Flower'. Films in Competition. |
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| "Foreign Parts" |
Mar 27, 2011 - Mar 27, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| A two-year examination of Willets Point; where scrappers survive in an automobile wasteland facing the shadows of a new stadium and urban renewal. |
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| Strange Attractors |
Mar 27, 2011 - Mar 27, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Short enigmatic works accompany the feature length film Shoals, a "prairie grotesque" by Melika Bass. Films in Competition |
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| Award Program One |
Mar 27, 2011 - Mar 27, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| Onstage announcement of the 49th juror awards, followed by a select screening of awarded films. Special Program |
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| Award Program Two |
Mar 27, 2011 - Mar 27, 2011 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
United States |
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| A second select screening of awarded short films from the 49th festival. Special Program |
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